Entrepreneurship is often practiced in education, but rarely is it subjected to careful consideration. Though today’s entrepreneurs are gradually remaking the face of K-12 education, most accounts of their work either celebrate successes or bemoan their excesses. Seldom do observers stop to examine the challenges and opportunities in store.

In Educational Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, Possibilities (Harvard Education Press, August 2006), Frederick M. Hess of AEI and a team of savvy contributors tackle the hard questions that have too long gone unasked: What is educational entrepreneurship and what does it look like? Who are the educational entrepreneurs? What tools and policies do they need to be successful? What are the roadblocks that they face?

Please join Hess as he discusses these questions with three trailblazing educational entrepreneurs: Michael Feinberg, cofounder of KIPP Schools; Michelle Rhee, chief executive officer and president of The New Teacher Project; and Chris Whittle, founder and chief executive officer of Edison Schools.